Sarawak's 1940 fractional currency was printed not by a specialist banknote firm but by the Survey Department of the Federated Malay States in Kuala Lumpur — a cartographic and mapping office pressed into service for currency production, as was not uncommon in British colonial territories where dedicated security printers were logistically impractical to engage for low-denomination notes.
This series would prove short-lived in practical terms. The Japanese occupation of Sarawak began in December 1941, and circulating British colonial currency was rapidly displaced by Japanese Military Administration notes.
Sarawak's 1940 fractional currency was printed not by a specialist banknote firm but by the Survey Department of the Federated Malay States in Kuala Lumpur — a cartographic and mapping office pressed into service for currency production, as was not uncommon in British colonial territories where dedicated security printers were logistically impractical to engage for low-denomination notes.
This series would prove short-lived in practical terms. The Japanese occupation of Sarawak began in December 1941, and circulating British colonial currency was rapidly displaced by Japanese Military Administration notes.